{"id":13498,"date":"2021-03-31T13:50:21","date_gmt":"2021-03-31T08:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/?p=13498"},"modified":"2021-03-31T13:50:23","modified_gmt":"2021-03-31T08:20:23","slug":"brazil-hit-by-covid-political-turmoil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/?p=13498","title":{"rendered":"Brazil \u2013 hit by covid &amp; political turmoil"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Brazil&#8217;s Ministry of Defense has announced that the commanders of the army, navy and air force will be replaced, deepening a political crisis for President Jair Bolsonaro.<br \/>Brazil is going through tumultuous times. Today, the country lost its army, air force and navy chiefs. The government says all three are being replaced. This is the biggest political crisis to hit the Brazilian military in decades. And it comes just one day after the president fired his defence and foreign ministers. All this while Brazil is struggling with the world&#8217;s worst surge of COVID-19 deaths!<br \/>Nearly 314,000 people have died, with a new daily record of 3,780 on Tuesday.<br \/>There have been more than 12.5 million confirmed cases.<br \/>Brazil&#8217;s far-right president, who came to power two years ago, has consistently opposed quarantine measures, arguing that the damage to the economy would be worse than the effects of the coronavirus itself.<br \/>Brazil&#8217;s President Jair Bolsonaro\u2019s popularity has plummeted over his response to Covid-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n<div class='saic-wrapper saic-default saic-comments-closed saic-border' style='overflow: hidden;'><div class='saic-wrap-link'><a id='saic-link-13498' class='saic-link saic-icon-link saic-icon-link-true auto-load-true' href='?post_id=13498&amp;comments=0&amp;get=30&amp;order=DESC' title='0 Comments'><i class='saico-comment'><\/i><span>0<\/span> Comments<\/a><\/div><!--.saic-wrap-link--><div id='saic-wrap-commnent-13498' class='saic-wrap-comments' style='display:none;'><div id='saic-wrap-form-13498' class='saic-wrap-form saic-clearfix'><div class='saic-form-avatar'><\/div><div id='saic-container-form-13498' class='saic-container-form saic-no-login'><p>Comments are closed<\/p><\/div><!--.saic-container-form--><\/div><!--.saic-wrap-form--><div id='saic-comment-status-13498'  class='saic-comment-status'><\/div><ul id='saic-container-comment-13498' class='saic-container-comments saic-order-DESC ' data-order='DESC'><\/ul><div class='saic-holder-13498 saic-holder'><\/div><\/div><!--.saic-wrap-comments--><\/div><!--.saic-wrapper-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brazil&#8217;s Ministry of Defense has announced that the commanders of the army, navy and air force will be replaced, deepening [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":13499,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world-news","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}